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Tue, Jan 8, 2019·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Dallas Stars 3, St. Louis Blues 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 76% of the time.

STL winsDAL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DAL162902317
STL04111012127

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

Every goal, with the change it made to the home team's win probability.

  1. P1 11:27DALTyler SeguinAssists: John Klingberg, Alexander Radulov · Snap, 0.18 xG1–0
  2. P2 1:43DALJohn KlingbergPPGWGAssists: Alexander Radulov, Tyler Seguin · Slap, 0.19 xG2–0
  3. P2 6:12DALTyler SeguinAssists: Miro Heiskanen, Roman Polak · Snap, 0.05 xG3–0
  4. P2 6:35STLDavid PerronAssists: Alex Pietrangelo, Carl Gunnarsson · Backhand, 0.04 xG3–1
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 1:34DALConnor Carrick: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 5:31DALConnor Carrick: Holding2 min
  3. P2 0:08STLRobert Bortuzzo: Kneeing2 min · PPG
  4. P2 0:33STLZachary Sanford: Slashing2 min

Replay

Watch the game unfold on the ice: every shot, hit, turnover and faceoff appears as it happened, then fades. Drag the timeline to jump; goals are marked on it.

DAL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← DAL attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00O'Reilly won the faceoff against Seguin
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DALSTL
17Shots on goal27
4.1Expected goals2.5
37Shot attempts64
30Faceoffs won20
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
17Hits25
23Blocked shots10
9Giveaways9
7Takeaways6

Line combinations that worked

Model-based

Each team's forward lines and defence pairs at 5-on-5 (two minutes or more together), best first by expected goals for minus against.

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestComeau – Janmark – Hintz6:58

    xG 0.63–0.15 (81%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  2. Radulov – Benn – Seguin11:49

    xG 0.43–0.53 (45%)attempts 6–18goals 2–0

  3. Pitlick – Faksa – Nichushkin11:03

    xG 0.24–0.36 (40%)attempts 3–12goals 0–0

  4. Spezza – Condra – Shore10:18

    xG 0.29–0.47 (38%)attempts 5–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestPolak – Lindell4:07

    xG 0.47–0.12 (80%)attempts 6–10goals 0–0

  2. Klingberg – Heiskanen3:57

    xG 0.42–0.15 (74%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  3. Klingberg – Lindell11:34

    xG 0.27–0.22 (55%)attempts 5–10goals 1–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSchenn – Tarasenko – Schwartz13:01

    xG 0.73–0.29 (71%)attempts 19–5goals 0–0

  2. Sundqvist – Fabbri – Barbashev2:20

    xG 0.24–0.05 (84%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Sundqvist – Barbashev – Blais4:06

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  4. Perron – O'Reilly – Sanford13:25

    xG 0.47–0.55 (46%)attempts 12–7goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBortuzzo – Edmundson11:10

    xG 0.56–0.14 (80%)attempts 14–3goals 0–1

  2. Bouwmeester – Parayko17:05

    xG 0.52–0.39 (57%)attempts 13–9goals 0–0

  3. Gunnarsson – Pietrangelo14:01

    xG 0.46–0.57 (45%)attempts 14–9goals 1–1

How the game flowed

Model-based

Chance quality for each side, minute by minute, with pressure underneath.

Expected goals flow

Running total of expected goals for each team. Steep climbs are spells of pressure; dots are goals. Shaded bands mark power plays (team colour), 4-on-4 or 3-on-3 (grey) and empty nets.

STL 2.5 xGDAL 4.1 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLDAL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

STL's chance of winning through the game. Above the middle line STL is favoured, below it DAL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 16/100 · #1054 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.78 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 45% (winner's lowest chance)
DAL 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 76% of the time.

STL winsDAL wins

Simulated goal difference (STL − DAL), 10,000 replays

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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).